editing.md

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Column Mode & Column Editor

Using Alt + Mouse dragging or Alt + Shift + Arrow keys to switch to column mode:

The Column Editor dialog allows you to insert text or numbers in every row of the active Column Mode selection:

• The Text to Insert will use the same text in every row.
• The Number to Insert will insert increasing numbers.
  • Initial number sets the starting number.
  • Increase by will change the step between numbers. With a value of 0 (or if left empty), it will insert the same number every time.
  • Repeat will will repeat the same number n times. Defaults to 1 if left blank.
  • ☐ Leading zeros will cause all the numbers to have the same number of digits, by adding leading zeros for the smaller values
  • Format chooses between Dec (0-9), Hex (0-9,A-F), Oct (0-7), or Bin (0-1). Note: that the numerical boxes above are always in decimal, even if a different format is chosen for display. (Example: to get F-1F, column-select 17 rows and set the initial number to 15 -- it will not allow F.)

Multi-Editing

Using CTRL + Mouse clicking if Multi-Editing mode is enabled. To enable Multi-Editing mode:

Dual View

To create Dual View, drag and drop any tab that you want it to be in another view (or right click on the tab) then choose "Move to Other View" command from the popup context menu. Once you've got 2 views, you can move files between 2 views by drag-and-dropping.

Clone Document

Drag and drop any tab that you want to clone (or right click on the tab) then choose "Clone to Other View" command from the popup context menu. The cloned document is the same document as its original one, but with the separated views.

Edit Menu

Aside from the normal undo/redo/copy/paste entries, there are a number of sub-menus to the Edit menu, which group together various categories of editing-related commands, and a few other editing commands in the main Edit menu.

• Copy to Clipboard > ⇒ submenu with actions that copy current filename, path, or directory name to the clipboard
• Indent > ⇒ submenu with actions that increase or decrease the current line's indentation, based on the syntax language's tab/indent settings
• Convert Case to > ⇒ submenu with actions that change the case of the selected text (all UPPERCASE, all lowercase, and various mixed-case settings)
• Line Operations > ⇒ submenu with actions that move or edit the current line; remove blank lines; and a variety of sorting algorithms.
  • There are two version of the Remove Duplicates functionality:
    • Remove Duplicates: leaves only the first instance of any full lines that have more than one copy anywhere in the active file
    • Remove Consecutive Duplicate Lines: will only remove duplicates that are on the lines immediately following the first instance (still keeping the first instance)
  • There are a variety of sorting algorithms:
    • Ascending means smallest to largest (A-Z)
    • Descending means largest to smallest (Z-A)
    • Lexicographically (or Lex.) means based on character codepoint, comparing one character at a time:
      • All uppercase letters will sort before any lowercase letter, so uppercase Z will sort before lowercase a
      • The sequence 10 will sort before 2, because it sorts character-by-character of each collection of characters, and the character 1 comes before the character 2
    • Ignoring case means that lowercase a will sort the same as uppercase A, and both will come before either Z or z
    • As Integers means that 10 will sort as being bigger than 2
    • As Decimals (Comma) means it will recognize 10,234 and 9,876 as decimal numbers and sort them numerically
    • As Decimals (Dot) means it will recognize 10.234 and 9.876 as decimal numbers and sort them numerically
    • Randomly means that the selected lines will be placed in a random order, not determined by the characters or values on the line (added in v7.9)
    • If a Column Mode selection is active, the sort will re-order all the lines included in the selection, but the sort key (the text that decides the sort order) will be limited to what is inside the column selection. If the keys are identical on two lines, then the order of those two lines will not change (even if text outside of the selected key columns is different).
• Comment/Uncomment > ⇒ submenu with actions that add or remove comment syntax, based on the file's Language selection
• Auto-Completion > ⇒ submenu with actions that trigger auto-completion of function name, word, function parameter, and pathname, affected by Preferences > Auto-Completion settings
• EOL Conversion > ⇒ submenu with actions that convert line endings between Windows (CRLF), Unix (LF), and old Macintosh (CR) values
• Blank Operations > ⇒ submenu with actions that trim or convert spaces and TABs
• Paste Special > ⇒ submenu with actions that pastes HTML or RTF , and special versions of copy/cut/paste which handle NULL and other binary characters
  • Note: The HTML and RTF actions paste the HTML and RTF source code from the HTML or RTF entries in the Windows Clipboard; it does not apply HTML or RTF formatting to what appears to be plain text in the Notepad++ editor window.
• On Selection > ⇒ submenu with actions that use the currently-selected text as a filename or folder to open, or as a term for an internet search. (Custom commands using the current selection can be added to the Run menu, using the <UserDefinedCommands> section of shortcuts.xml.)
• Column Mode... ⇒ dialog explaining Column Mode
• Column Editor ⇒ runs the Column Editor dialog, described above
• Character Panel ⇒ maps the 255 8-bit code points to their character for the given encoding
• Clipboard History ⇒ allows you to re-access recent copy/paste values (double-click a row to paste that value)
• Set Read-Only or Clear Read-Only Flag ⇒ toggles whether the active file is set to Read-Only mode or not